Google’s finally rolling out the Zoom Enhance camera trick it announced last year

Apparently, turning the cliched “enhance!” meme into world wasn’t arsenic casual arsenic Google might’ve initially expected. Today, the institution confirmed in a blog post that Zoom Enhance is yet rolling retired to the Pixel 8 Pro and volition besides beryllium contiguous connected the Pixel 9 Pro, 9 Pro XL, and 9 Pro Fold astatine launch.

Google announced the AI-powered Zoom Enhance during last year’s Made by Google event, but we’ve made it each the mode to a caller procreation of phones, and lone present is the bundle diagnostic acceptable for release. “When you pinch in, Zoom Enhance tin intelligently sharpen and heighten the details of your images, truthful you tin get person than ever, adjacent erstwhile you hide to zoom,” is however Google’s hardware main Rick Osterloh explained the diagnostic past October.

Fast guardant to today, and Google describes it arsenic such:

As my erstwhile workfellow Jon Porter wrote past year, heighten “has been seen “in countless sci-fi movies and police procedural shows, with computers zooming impossibly acold into photos to uncover clues and details that simply could not person been contiguous successful the archetypal image.” The illustration of Zoom Enhance successful Google’s latest blog station isn’t precisely mind-blowing, truthful it’s imaginable the institution has dialed backmost its ambitions portion processing this feature.

Zoom Enhance joins a slew of caller camera bundle tricks coming to Google’s caller Pixels — similar Add Me, Reimagine successful Magic Editor, and much — and this time, each of them volition beryllium disposable erstwhile the phones ship. Seems similar Google learned its acquisition successful that regard.

Check retired Becca’s preview beneath showing a batch of what’s caller with the Pixel camera successful 2024.